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  • Samuel Beckett and Medicine

    by Ulrika Maude ...
    Samuel Beckett and Medicine offers the first sustained analysis of the author's abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability, ageing, and dying in his work. It analyses Beckett's representation of the production of language, offering new ways of understanding the often perplexing formal and stylistic ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Medical Humanities

    Edited by Dr Ulrika Maude ...
    This volume offers a critical introduction to the field of Medical Humanities, unpacking the discipline's key concepts and methodologies in a lively, analytical and accessible manner that will benefit students and researchers alike.The book's chapters address the key concepts of 'Illness', 'Contagion', 'Patient', 'Feeling', 'Neurodiversity', 'Disability', 'Ageing', and 'Death and Dying'. They also ... Read more

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  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature

    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including:· The modernist everyday: emotion, myth, geographies and language ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Beckett and Phenomenology

    Series series Continuum Literary Studies
    Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition.This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

    Edited by David Hillman, Ulrika Maude ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies

    New Critical Essays

    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Trauma Narratives

    Liminality and the Ethics of Form

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

    Edited by John Pilling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been ... Read more

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  • Samuel Beckett

    by David Pattie ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The Absurd. Samuel Beckett is a comprehensive introduction to his life and work as well as an outline of the critical issues surrounding his work. This ... Read more

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  • Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno

    Something or Nothing

    Series series Founding Critical Theory
    Since his notorious 1961 lecture, 'Trying to Understand Endgame', Theodor W. Adorno's name has been frequently coupled with that of Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose paths crossed all too fleetingly. Specifically the book argues for a preoccupation with the concept of freedom in Beckett's works - one which ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Think, Pig!

    Beckett at the Limit of the Human

    This book examines Samuel Beckett’s unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism’s postwar crisis—the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes.Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores the whole range of Beckett’s plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation ... Read more

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  • Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

    by Steven Connor ...
    Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD